Woman Wants Town To Pay Her Legal Fees

Sixty-five thousand dollars. All over a lousy prayer. And that’s probably not counting the money spent by the city in lawyers, votes, hearings and general bureaucracy. Never mind that the money could have, I don’t know, bought new text books for the town’s kids or…gasp…been given back to the citizens to spend on something other than silly lawsuits.

According to the article, one town leader said the area’s citizens “would be happy” to help pay the legal fees as they were, for the most part, in favor of the battle.

I am constantly being offended by the actions of Federal, State and local government. I figure I’m owed 30 to 40 million so far based on my pain and suffering. Any good lawyers out there willing to take my case on a contingency basis?

Unless I’m misreading what you’re saying you think the people approved of the suit, what I got from reading it they were in favor of fighting the suit. Maybe there should have been a compromise, allow the wiccan priestess to dance around a tree outside and chant something while scarificing a chicken before every meeting, a town that size probably doesn’t have much in the way of live comedy performances anyway.

Lest there be no misunderstanding, a plaintiff who is successful in a civli rights or constitutional rights case is statutorily entitled to have his attorneys fees paid by the defendant government entity — it’s what keeps the ACLU in business. To the extent they are a litigation factory and are shrewd about the way they pick and choose their lawsuits, they can run their operation like a profit-making law firm.